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Jack Frost is starting to nip at your nose, so now’s the perfect time to look into new winter wear to at least warm your fingers and toes. These latest boot and jacket styles offer some cold comfort and can protect you from a winter of discontent.

Just because you’re trying to keep warm, doesn’t mean you still can’t look hot. The French designs of the Palladium Pampa Thermal boots can make you look like you just stepped off a Paris runaway, while still protecting your feet from rain, sleet or snow.

The Palladium brand was founded in 1920 and outfitted the legendary French Foreign Legion with their Pampa boot. These days, the company’s Pampa Thermal boots march to a different style. The boots are pretty on the outside and warm on the inside – sort of like a supermodel with a great personality. They’re made of waterproof leathers, Dri-Lex moisture wicking lining and Thinsulate Ultra, which all ensures your foot temperature is comfortably maintained in cold conditions (180 minute exposure at -20° C) -- just in case you decide to join the Foreign Legion.

Muck around in the snow: Manitobah Mukluks Tipi moccasins

Price: $69

Where to buy:manitobah.ca and at select retailers across Canada including Town Shoes

What better way to prep for another Canadian winter than with an all-Canadian moccasin made by Canada’s First Peoples? The handcrafted Mukluks Tipi moccasins aren’t just footwear – they also represent an entire community. Manitoba Mukluks partners with the Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development to hire skilled Aboriginal employees as more consumers buy the products and the company grows. Special-edition Mukluks are also available, featuring designs and artwork by some of Canada’s top Aboriginal artists.

Beat the cold winds with a blast of hot air – or in this case argon gas. The Klymit Ulaar Jacket doesn’t use the traditional down-filled stuffing to insulate its wearer. Instead, it is equipped with a pump that can inflate the jacket with argon gas when you need extra warmth and insulation. Included is a dry air pump for an endless number of inflations. The prototype of this hi-tech jacket was completed on Nov. 9 after its inventor tried to raise research and development resources on group funding website www.kickstarter.com.

The Ulaar conforms to your body snugly, capturing your body heat and recirculating it throughout your core. You can breathe easy if you’re a little concerned about wearing a futuristic jacket that uses gases to heat you up. The Ulaar only contains gases that are non-toxic and nonflammable. The same can’t be said for warm, human-emitted gasses.

When taking baby out this winter, you want to make sure the little one is covered from head to toe. The Canada Goose Baby Snowsuit provides full-body coverage with a warming storm flap beneath a locking zipper from chin to ankle. It comes in a variety of colours and is available in sizes for babies from 12 months to four years. Although it is easy to get babies in and out of the snowsuit, it’s too bad a parent-friendly rear trap door wasn’t added for diaper emergencies.

Many Canadians have already made preparations for the most commercially romantic day of the year. According to stats collected by eBay, Quebecors are beating the panties off the rest of the country, purchasing at least twice the amount of underwear than any other province in Canada. Meanwhile, New Brunswick is well stocked – with the most lingerie